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Question
Discuss the structure of sulfur dioxide.
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Solution
1) Sulfur dioxide is angular with O – S – O bond angle of 119.5°.
2) The S – O double bond arises from dπ-pπ bonding.
3) It is a resonance hybrid of two canonical forms as shown below:

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